Defying Expectations: An Alternative (and Peaceful) Look at 1968 Detroit

This was not just any year in the life or Detroit or America, but a moment when hope and despair mixed like chemicals in a test tube. To Enrico Natali, Detroit must have seemed the perfect middle-of-America spot to witness the nation’s combustible spirit: arriving in 1967, he would stay three years.  The images were displayed at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1969 as a broad sweep of “New American Life,” one not specific to Detroit.